Posts tagged ‘Chinese New Year’

The Chinese New Year began on 3^rdFebruary, heralding the arrival of the Year of the Rabbit.  Famous ‘rabbits’ include Frank Sinatra, David Beckham, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, Tiger Woods, Whitney Houston and Albert Einstein.  Not bad company to be part of if you are lucky enough to be a rabbit.

In China it’s customary for families to clean their homes from top to bottom before the new year begins to clear out any bad luck.  So if you’re planning to give your dolls’ house a spring clean, what better time than now and bring yourself a little good luck too.

Happy Chinese New Year!

Here is the final installment of the Chinese New Year series, this week covering dressing your doll. If you’ve missed the previous entries in the series you can find them here. Let’s get started!

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By now you should have your Chinese tea room coming together very nicely. If you missed last week’s installment and haven’t got your shelves ready yet you can find out how to make them here.  If you are ready to make your cupboard, let’s get started!

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Last week we showed you how to make the first 3 pieces of furniture for your Chinese themed room. This week we’ll be looking at the bookcase and how you can turn this into this. Pretty remarkable don’t you think? (more…)

Gung Ho Fat Choy! Chinese new year is a fabulous celebration and you can recreate a flavour of the season in miniature too. This amazing room set has been created using products you can readily find in our catalogue and few extras that you can find in any crafty home. Over the next few weeks we’ll show you how you can make this Chinese style sitting room and help celebrate the Chinese New Year with all it’s fabulous colours and customs.

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